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Rose Hill: An Intermarriage Before Its Time
Rose Hill An Intermarriage Before Its Time Author:Carlos E. Cortes A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire. ''Dad was a Mexican Catholic. Mom was a Kansas City born Jew with Eastern European immigrant parents. They fell in love in Berkeley, California, and got married in Kansas City, Missouri. It happened in 1933, when such marriages were rare.'' Nationally acclaimed multicultural scholar Carlos Cortes's memo... more »ir is a loving and examined portrait of a family at odds with itself. Wedged between loyalties and deeply ingrained cultural traditions, Cortes was raised with Yiddish in one ear and Spanish in the other, studying for his Bar Mitzvah after Mass. With an eye for the subtleties of conflict and tenderness, Cortes recounts his development amid the complex affections of a family whose members remained firmly by each other's side until the very end.« less